ArticleBulletin of the history of medicine2013
Repositioning the patient: patient organizations, consumerism, and autonomy in Britain during the 1960s and 1970s.
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- The Machinery of Authoritarian Care: Dramatising Breast Cancer Treatment in 1970s Britain.Social history of medicine : the journal of the Society for the Social History of Medicine · 2014Article
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Abstract
This article explores how and why the patient came to be repositioned as a political actor within British health care during the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on the role played by patient organizations, it is suggested that the repositioning of the patient needs to be seen in the light of growing demands for greater patient autonomy and the application of consumerist principles to health. Examining the activities of two patient groups-the National Association for the Welfare of Children in Hospital (NAWCH) and the Patients Association (PA)-indicates that while such groups undoubtedly placed more emphasis on individual autonomy, collective concerns did not entirely fall away. The voices of patients, as well as the patient, continued to matter within British health care.
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